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Assembly Line
An assembly line is a production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence. Henry Ford created it in his carfactory in 1904. -
Television
Television is a system for converting visual images (with sound) into electrical signals, transmitting them by radio or other means, and displaying them electronically on a screen. The first TV wascreated by John Logie Bairdin 1925 -
Penicillin
Penicillin is an antibiotic or group of antibiotics produced naturally by certain blue moulds, now usually prepared synthetically. Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming and during the Second World War became the first antibiotic to be used by doctors. -
First Computer
The first substantial computer was the giant ENIAC machine by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania. ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator) used a word of 10 decimal digits instead of binary ones like previous automated calculators/computers. -
Optical Fiber
An optical fiber is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than a human hair. Optical fibers are used most often as a means to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber and find wide usage in fiber-optic communications, where they permit transmission over longer distances and at higher bandwidths (data transfer rates) than electrical cables. It was created by Charles Kuen Kao. -
First Artificial Satellite (Sputnik 1)
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite.The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It orbited for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before it fell back into the atmosphere. -
LED Diode
The “Light Emitting Diode” or LED as it is more commonly called, is basically just a specialised type of diode as they have very similar electrical characteristics to a PN junction diode. This means that an LED will pass current in its forward direction but block the flow of current in the reverse direction. Nick Honoylan created it in 1962. -
Email
Messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network. Created by Ray Tomlinson -
Mobile Phone
A telephone with access to a cellular radio system so it can be used over a wide area, without a physical connection to a network. It was created by Martin Cooper -
Personal Computer (PC)
A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use. Personal computers are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or technician. Henry Edward Roberts created it in 1977 -
Microsoft Windows Operating System
Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer (PC) market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984. -
Compact Disc (CD)
Stands for "Compact Disc." CDs are circular discs that are 4.75 in (12 cm) in diameter. The CD standard was proposed by Sony and Philips in 1980 and the technology was introduced to the U.S. market in 1983.The data on a CD is stored as small notches on the disc and is read by a laser from an optical drive. -
World Wide Web (WWW)
An information system on the Internet which allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another. -
Flat-Screen Plasma Display
Plasma TV is a television display technology in which each pixel on the screen is illuminated by a tiny bit of plasma (charged gas). The plasma is encased between two thin sheets of glass. Plasma displays are generally considered to offer better dark-room viewing and wider viewing angles than LCD. -
Bluetooth Standards
Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances using UHF radio waves in the industrial, scientific and medical radio bands, from 2.402 GHz to 2.480 GHz, and building personal area networks (PANs). -
Digital Video DIsc (DVD)
DVD (abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed in 1995 and released in late 1996. The medium can store any kind of digital data and is widely used for software and other computer files as well as video programs watched using DVD players. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. -
Wi-Fi Networks
A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. ... Examples of wireless networks include cell phone networks, wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless sensor networks, satellite communication networks, and terrestrial microwave networks. -
Blu-Ray Standards
Blu-Ray discs have more storage capacity — a LOT more. A standard DVD holds 4.7 Gigabytes of data. ... If that movie is longer than two hours, you need two DVDs, or a double-layer DVD that can store around 9GB. On the other hand, a double-layer Blu-Ray disc can hold a massive 50 GB of data. -
New Horizons spacecraft reach Pluto
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by S. Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study of the Pluto system in 201. -
Is there life in Venus?
The Royal Astronomical Society announces the detection of phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, which is known to be a strong predictor for the presence of microbial life. Researchers suggest that the gas could have possibly resulted from to date unexplained abiotic chemical, atmospheric or geologic processes or constitute a biosignature.
